Egypt: 4 dead and 8 injured after residential building collapses in Cairo

Egypt's civil protection authority announced the deaths of four people, including two children and a woman, and injuries to eight others after an old residential building collapsed in the Hadayek al-Qubba area of Cairo. Rescue teams are searching for missing persons under the rubble, while the prosecution has opened an investigation.

Egypt's civil protection authority announced the deaths of four people and injuries to eight others after an old residential building collapsed in the Hadayek al-Qubba area of Cairo. The incident occurred on the night of Tuesday-Wednesday, when the operations room received a report of a building collapse. The civil protection authority stated in a press release that it had extracted the bodies of two children, a woman, and another person from under the rubble, and eight injured, including a child, were transferred to hospital for treatment. The collapsed building, which dates back to the 1950s, consists of a ground floor and four upper floors. Civil protection teams, ambulances, and executive authorities of the governorate are continuing rubble removal and search operations for potential missing persons under the debris. The prosecution has taken over the investigation into the incident.